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"You ought to go away," she said in a low voice. "I hope it won't come to that," he said. It was Rupert who asked her a week later if she had jilted Zebedee. "Why?" she asked quickly. "He's ill, woman." "I know." "But really ill. You ought to send him away until the spring."
I thought I went to Africa for fame, but I see I really went to find you. What I sought seems poor compared to what I have found." "Perhaps," said the girl, looking shyly at him, "fame is waiting as anxiously for you to woo her as as another person waited. Fame is a shameless huzzy, you know." The young man shook his head. "No. Fame has jilted me once. I won't give her another chance."
"Miss Leyburn has been jilted and cannot see visitors," that is the kind of thing. Catherine, when you have finished that document, will you kindly come and hear me practise my last Raff I am going. Good-bye. She moved to the door, but Catherine had only just time to catch her, or she would have fallen over a chair from sudden giddiness.
Whether Harriet would have come forward if Jack had appealed to her is not known; possibly she would have done it for pity's sake; but Jack was too proud to ask a single favour of a girl who had jilted him; and he let her alone. The trial was a short one, and the death sentence was passed. 'The day o' young Jack's execution was a cold dusty Saturday in March.
But when she had thought of it thrice she did not do it. Were she to tell her story it would seem as though she were repeating to him back his own. "I too have been in love, and engaged, and have jilted a gentleman considerably my senior in age."
How could it be that she should not despise a man, despise him if she did not hate him, who had behaved as this man had behaved to her? It was now four years since this Crosbie had been engaged to Miss Dale, and had jilted her so heartlessly as to incur the disgust of every man in London who had heard the story.
Marry them, and they came to hate the way you walked across the room; remain their lover, and they jilted you at the end of six months. He had hardly ever heard of a liaison lasting more than a year or eighteen months, and Evelyn would meet all the nicest men in Europe.
"You may save your breath, old fellow," answered the Captain, "for this reason if for no other," and he threw him a letter across the table, which letter I saw afterwards. To be brief, it was from the young lady to whom he had been engaged to be married, and who on his loss of fortune had jilted him.
You were very handsome in those days, weren't you?" "Was I?" said Sir Kersley. "Yes. That's why I kept you. There was a bit of your hair with it, but I burnt that." Violet's brows knitted suddenly. "My mother was handsome too," she said. "I wonder why you jilted her!" Sir Kersley made a slight movement, so slight that it seemed almost involuntary.
"Juliet, I repeat it, because I want you to know you have got to know that she is unworthy of your friendship, and you shall never touch pitch with my consent. I have heard it from various sources, from Ashcott, from the agent here, Bishop, and others. My dear, you have always known her for a heartless flirt. You broke with her because she jilted the man she was about to marry.
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